Hobey Baker Talk (Lamoureux focused)

Our friend Elliot Olshansky has a nice article about a possible Hobey Baker candidate, Air Force hockey player and former Grand Forks Central Knight Jacques Lamoureux. Being from North Dakota It would be a nice story to see a kid from Grand Forks, ND win the Hobey Baker. It would even be more interesting to see back to back brothers be in the running for the Hobey, however it is still early.

So, the last time I blogged, I got a very good question from the crowd - and feel free to leave more of those, by the way…love the comments - asking about Air Force forward Jacques Lamoureux.

After a month and a half of play this season, Lamoureux certainly has an impressive case. He’s leading the undefeated Falcons in scoring, and sharing the national points-per-game lead with teammate Brent Olson and Boston College’s Brock Bradford. Of course, there’s no guarantee he can keep it up - Lamoureux was held off the scoresheet this past weekend at Holy Cross - but watching the way Lamoureux has started the season reminds me of two former Hobey finalists.

One, of course, is his older brother, former North Dakota goaltender Jean-Philippe Lamoureux -more for name reasons than anything else - but we’ll get to him in just a second. The other, more fitting name that comes to mind is Eric Ehn.